618 - Church Whistleblower's Unjust Fine Upheld
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Court upholds $400,000 fine against lawyer who warned Catholic school about predator on staff. (1:15)
— Scott Adams’ deathbed conversion to Christianity shouldn’t be taken seriously. (25:30)
— Texas attorney general sues state for non-existent religious discrimination. (42:27)
— Ohio’s "Success Sequence" bill turns poverty into a personal failure. (55:59)
— Can students fail an assignment if they cite God? Not if Florida Republicans get their way. (1:08:13)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemin. |
| 0:01.7 | And Jessica. |
| 0:02.4 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free episodes, get your bonus episodes. |
| 0:14.8 | We appreciate that. |
| 0:16.2 | And Jess is going somewhere. |
| 0:18.5 | I am. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm taking my first vacation in like, four years. |
| 0:22.9 | We're going to the Pacific Northwest, and we are going to, me and my husband, not me and |
| 0:28.4 | Hammett. And we are going to be at the Snaquamme Brewery on February 21st in the evening. |
| 0:37.4 | I have seven that might change, but Snoqualmie |
| 0:41.9 | is like 30 miles east of Seattle. It's beautiful. It's in the Cascade Mountains. So yeah, |
| 0:48.4 | that's where we will be. I would love to see people. I know it's probably a hike for everybody, |
| 0:54.1 | but you know, if you a hike for me too. |
| 0:56.0 | If you're in the area, check it out. |
| 0:57.6 | And where do they find information? |
| 0:59.6 | Oh, God. |
| 1:00.7 | I'll keep Facebook posted. |
| 1:03.0 | And, yeah, probably here is the best place to get final shit. |
| 1:06.8 | All right. |
| 1:07.3 | So we'll alert you closer to the date. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. |
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